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Hello everyone!
And welcome to our very special 65th episode of MajestiComic.
Over the past sixty-four episodes, we have profiled some of the greatest superheroes
in all of comic books.
Today, though, it is finally time to bring you the superhero who started it all: Superman.
Standing for truth, justice, and the American way, Superman was meant to be one of the greatest
heroes of all time, and something that we should all aspire to be.
He was the first real, bona fide superhero to ever get his own comic book, and has inspired
hundreds of characters and touched millions of lives since he first appeared in Action
Comics in 1938.
Most comic book fans know this, of course, but what they may not know is that there is
more to the story.
Superman as we know him – the strong, brave, bold Kryptonian who came to Earth as a baby
and was raised as a kindhearted farmboy by an older couple from Kansas – is actually
a second draft.
The original Superman actually appeared in a short story in 1933, and was not really
very super or heroic at all.
Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster, the creators of both this original Superman and the Superman
we know and love, were in high school when they first began writing and drawing comics.
They then tried to sell their stories to magazines and other publications to make money.
This was during the Great Depression, and money was tight.
Unfortunately, though, all of the magazines they queried weren't interested, as their
work was something completely new and different.
So, Siegel and Schuster went into business for themselves, and began to print their own
stories.
With Siegel as the writer and Shuster as the artist, the pair produced a magazine dedicated
to science fiction stories, which was where they eventually came to print their first
incarnation of Superman.
As I said before, this Superman was not like the Clark Kent version of Superman.
In fact, the name itself was spelled a bit differently, with a hyphen between the "super"
and the "man."
The Reign of the Super-Man was a story inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's idea of an Ubermench,
which translates roughly to "superman," or to "overman" or "hyperhuman," – in
other words, a man with greater powers than a human is meant to have.
This idea had been used by many different authors and scholars at many different points
in history – in fact, the word "superman" was being used in English as early as 1903
– but for their story, Siegel and Shuster imagined this "super-man" as a weak man
who gained incredible telepathic powers and set out to rule the world.
He was a bald man, and looked more like the popular Superman villain Lex Luthor than the
Superman we know, and he was more of an allegory on the dangers of power than a true comic
book character.
So, that Super-man faded into obscurity, and Siegel and Shuster later decided to take out
the hyphen and start all over with their Superman character.
Finding inspiration in mythology and heroic tales of the past like Hercules and the Biblical
Samson, as well as characters from pulp magazines like Doc Savage and Buck Rogers, Siegel and
Shuster created an all-new person, a hero this time.
This character wasn't out to destroy the world, he was out to save it, fighting against
real-life threats like Hitler and Stalin, as well as your average low-life thugs from
the street.
They created a costume for him that resembled that of a circus performer or an astronaut,
and that costume would go on to be the prototype for nearly all of the superheroes who came
after him.
They gave him handsome, movie-star looks reminiscent of a popular actor of the time named Douglas
Fairbanks, and they gave his an alter ego a name that combined the Clark from actor
Clark Gable, and the Kent from actor Kent Taylor.
Everything about him seemed to be made to appeal to the average American reader... but
yet, their first attempts to publicize Superman were completely unsuccessful.
The pair tried to pitch their idea to many comic book publishers, but they got rejected
over and over again.
The publishers had only really seen comics that featured characters who were human beings,
and who had real-life powers.
This man with super strength and the ability to leap tall buildings in a single bound was
too quote "fanciful" for them, and they didn't see how it would work.
Fortunately, though, it only takes one person to give you a chance to show what your character
is made of, and National Allied Comics gave Siegel and Shuster that chance.
In 1938, the company that would later become DC Comics published Action Comics #1, an anthology
that featured many other characters in addition to the duo's revamped Superman.
This Superman character, though, turned out to be wildly, ridiculously, unprecedentedly
popular, and almost immediately had to be given his own solo comic book series.
Since then, Superman has been going strong, and his story has never stopped.
But where did that story start, though?
We know the origins of the Superman comic book, and how it came to be, but what about
the character of Superman?
What is his origin story?
Let's take a look at it now and find out.
As most DC fans know, DC Comics often reboots or reimagines the origin stories for many
of their characters every decade or so, and Superman is no exception.
In the 1930s and 40s, known as the Golden Age of Comics, Superman's origin begins
on the planet Krypton, as it does in the other versions as well.
At this point, though, he is called Kal-L, son of Jor-L, a Kryptonian scientist.
Jor-L discovers that the planet is about to explode, but no one believes him.
With no time left and no hope of saving themselves, Jor-L and his wife, Lara, put their baby in
a small spaceship and send him to Earth.
When the ship arrives on Earth, it is discovered by an older couple named Jonathan and Mary
Kent.
At first they are not sure if they can raise a child, so they consider sending him to live
in an orphanage.
In the end, though, they decide to raise the baby as their own, and name him Clark.
As Clark grows up, he begins to develop more and more incredible powers, such as super
strength and x-ray vision, but they love him just the same.
Unfortunately, though, in this incarnation Jonathan and Mary both die, but before they
do, they call Clark Superman for the first time, and beg him to use his powers for good,
and for justice.
So, with this in mind, Superman moves to the big city of Metropolis, where his alter ego
Clark Kent gets a job as a reporter at the Daily Planet newspaper, and his superhero
alias Superman begins saving the world.
This first version of Superman, though, was a bit ruthless when it came to fighting crime.
He used a lot of brute force, and often killed people.
In the late 1940s, though, a new editor gained control of the project and banned Superman
from killing anyone.
So, Superman declared that he would never kill again, and if he did, he swore he would
retire from the superhero business.
In this version, Lois Lane is introduced as Clark –slash-Superman's love interest
and eventual wife, and Lex Luthor is introduced as his archenemy.
These things stay pretty much the same when the story is revamped in the Silver Age of
comics.
The Silver Age is also when we began to see the introduction of other members of the Superman
family, like Superboy, Krypto the Superdog, and Supergirl, who we profiled in a previous
video, as well as some of his most notable adversaries, like Bizarro, who we will profile
in the future.
The story of Clark Kent, though, was fleshed out as well, and we see that baby Kal-El's
ship lands in a small Kansas town called Smallville, where Clark begins exhibiting his powers even
when he was just an infant.
His parents are Jonathan and Martha this time, and a teenaged Clark now has two best friends
to connect him to his second hometown – Lana Lang and Pete Ross.
If you have watched the CW series Smallville, you will recognize that this Silver Age comic
is the basis for that particular Superman show.
In the comic book version, though, Jonathan and Martha still die (even if they live in
future versions), this time of a terrible disease that Superman just cannot cure.
But before they die, though, Clark convinces his mother to sew him a superhero costume,
so he can fight crime.
After Jonathan and Martha's deaths, Clark goes to Metropolis University, moves to Metropolis,
and eventually becomes the Superman he was meant to be.
As Superman, with even more new powers fueled by Earth's yellow sun, Clark not only fights
crime on his own, but he often joins forces with other heroes like Batman and Wonder Woman.
His most important connection, though, is probably with Lois Lane, the woman who, in
some incarnations of the story, eventually becomes his wife.
She loves both Clark Kent and Superman, which is lucky, since they turned out to be the
same person!
We will go into more detail on Lois in a future video (because this one is getting a bit long...
haha), but she, too, was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster to be a perfect match
for Superman.
She is tough, feisty, and would do anything to get a story for the Daily Planet... including
faking an accident to get the scoop on Metropolis' newest superhero.
Lois and Superman first met when he came to save her from an incident of her own making,
but she first met Clark when she went to turn in the story she had written about that incident.
When she went to hand in her report, she found that an article had already been written about
it – by a new reporter named Clark Kent.
She was furious with him at first, but eventually she and Clark became good friends, and the
rest, as you know, is history.
Superman, being one of the most important characters ever to appear in comic books,
obviously has a very rich, detailed history, and we have only just begun to scratch its
surface in this short video.
For now, though, the important thing to know is that Superman is responsible for bringing
the idea of superheroes into our lives, and for giving us something greater than ourselves
to believe in.
What are your thoughts on Superman?
Let us know in the comments section!
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Thanks for watching!
Until next time.
Bye!
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